WE ACT Facts
WE ACT operates in this neighborhood of Manhattan
What is northern Manhattan?
This working group is involved in get-out-the-vote efforts and other initiatives to help get people involved in elections, WE ACT, and important issues.
What is the Civic Engagement working group?
This is the term for how Communities of Color and other low income communities face a disproportionate risk of exposure to pollution and related health conditions.
What is Environmental Racism?
This initiative ensures that 40 percent of the overall benefits of certain Federal investments flow to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution.
What is Justice40?
She is WE ACT's founder
Who is Peggy Shephard?
This is where WE ACT's federal policy office is located
What is Washington D.C.?
This working group educated women and other femme-identifying people of color about the health impacts of various cosmetic products.
What is the Beauty Inside Out working group?
Communities of Color experience incredibly higher rates of this lung disease due to increased exposure to environmental hazards and limited healthcare access.
What is Asthma?
This law was implemented to reduce city-wide emissions, and requires buildings over 25,000 square feet to meet new energy limits
What is Local Law 97?
He is the Manager of Membership and Organizing
Who is Bailey?
WE ACT membership meetings are held on this day every month
What is the second saturday?
This working group advocates for cleaner and greener trains/buses that are affordable and accessible to all.
What is the Transportation Working Group?
This is a deceptive marketing practice that seeks to make businesses seem more eco-friendly than they actually are.
What is Greenwashing?
This law requires that a citywide study of environmental justice be conducted, and the results of the study be made available to the public
What is Local Law 60?
They are the hosts of WE ACT's podcast
Who are Jaron and LJ?
WE ACT was founded in this year.
What 1988?
This working group aims to implement equitable climate change solutions at the city, state, and federal levels.
What is the Climate Justice Working Group?
One goal of the environmental movement is to build this, defined as the "capacity of social, economic and ecosystems to cope with a hazardous event or trend or disturbance"
What is Climate Resilience?
This law requires the city to keep environmental justice in mind in policy decision making.
What is Local Law 64?
She is the Director of Environmental Heath and Education.
Who is Dr. Micaela Martinez?
WE ACT has approximately this many members
What is 1100 members?
This working group aims to improve living standards by identifying and implementing solutions to improve their indoor environment (housing) at the city, state, and federal levels.
What is the Healthy Homes working group?
This is the name for the phenomenon where cities are much warmer than suburban/rural areas.
What is the Urban Heat Island Effect?
Local Law 154, also known as this, put an end to gas hookups in new construction and gut renovations in New York City
What is Gas Free NYC?
She is the Senior Director of Strategy and Federal Policy
Who is Dana?